Community members may soon have new ways to engage with trustees of the Round Rock ISD school board.
Trustees approved the exploration of holding additional town halls, listening sessions, neighborhood meetings and other forms of two-way communication with community members during an April 20 meeting.
Place 6 Trustee Tiffanie Harrison said these meetings might include two or three trustees to avoid creating a quorum, and offer a different kind of setting for community members to speak face-to-face with school board members outside of a structured public meeting. Harrison said that although the board's regular meetings do provide a form of two-way communication for interested stakeholders, there are some barriers to attendance, such as distance and traffic.
"There are people that simply won't come to us," Harrison said. "We need to figure out a mechanism to come to them on their terms and explore how to do that safely."
